Travel through Mysore with Lakshmi Krishnan’s paintings

‘Mysore Days with Kruthi’ is Lakshmi Krishnan’s way of paying homage to the city she loves

Mysuru has brought together its residents in more ways than one. Talk to anyone from the city and they will tell you how it is a silent rule to go to Chamundi Betta (Chamundi Hill) to celebrate birthdays. Likewise, it is a very Mysuru thing to bond over the smallest of things in and around the city.

Dr Lakshmi Krishnan, an oral pathologist with a keen interest in cancer research and public health, currently working as a Senior Clinical Research Scientist at Niramai Health Analytix, Bengaluru, has given the city’s residents something new to bond over.

Born in Mysuru and having lived in the city for many years, Lakshmi’s fondness for her hometown never diminished even after she moved to Bengaluru. To give form to this fondness, she started a project, ‘Mysore Days with Kruthi’.

In a candid phone conversation with The Hindu, Lakshmi, 37, said she wanted to raise a toast to the city she was born, by etching 37 of her Mysuru memories in watercolours.

“I was not a professional painter, although I used to dabble with art now and then,” she says with a laugh. “Having stayed in Mysuru for such a long time, it took a while to get used to the fact that I don’t stay there anymore but, my love for the city never lessened. I felt the need to do something for the city that I love deeply.”

Each of the paintings of the city’s relatable and famous landmarks, are accompanied by anecdotes, thus invoking similar feelings of nostalgia among Mysuru’s current and former residents.